Wearing Ties Can Reduce Blood Flow to the Brain by 7.5 Percent

Men working in offices often use neckties, but results from a new study suggest that wearing ties can actually hinder work performance and limit creativity

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Neuroradiology On June 30, researchers found evidence suggesting that wearing the popular male accessory can hinder a person's creative abilities.

Wearing a tie tightens the veins in the neck, which limits blood flow

Researcher Robin Lüddecke of the Schleswig-Holstein University Hospital in Germany and his colleagues recruited 30 men for the 39, study, half of whom were asked to wear ties.

After scanning the brains of the participants, the researchers found that the links tightly veins where the blood flows through to reach the brain, cutting circulation by 7.5 percent. The percentage is large enough to make a fatal difference for those with high blood pressure.

"The examination resulted in a statistically significant decrease in cerebral blood flow after tightening the tie (p <0.001) while venous flow did not show significant changes," the researchers wrote in their study. "It seems that wearing a tie results in a reduction in BCF."

Tight Ties, Glaucoma and Blindness

This is not the first time that a potential danger to health is badociated with the wearing of ties.An earlier study also showed that wearing too tight a tie can increase a person's risk of blindness.

In a 2003 study published in the Journal of Ophthalmology the researchers measured the fluid in the men's eyeball and after they wore their tie.They found that it increases the intraocular pressure, or the pressure of the fluid inside the eye. eye, which is badociated with glaucoma

Glaucoma, one of the leading causes of irreversible blindness, occurs when pressure increases cause eye damage. Experts have said that neckties probably cause the problem because wearing them tightens the jugular vein, the main blood vessels that return blood from the head to the heart.

The researchers said the findings suggest an badociation between "If the patient consistently wore a tight tie as a normal preference in everyday life, this could lead to a sustained increase in IOP and could predispose to the development of neuropathy. Glaucoma optics, thus making a tight tie to risk factor as well as a confounding factor of the precise measure of IOP ", wrote the researchers in their study.